Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Viet Nam and Red China, the President said: "Communist China apparently desires the war to continue, whatever the cost to their allies. Their target is not merely South Viet Nam. It is Asia. Their objective is not the fulfillment of Vietnamese nationalism. It is to erode and to discredit America's ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia." Speaking slowly and emphatically, he added: "In this domination they shall never succeed. And I am continuing, and I am increasing the search for every possible path to peace...
...occasion this time was the presentation of Inönü's 1965 budget, totaling a record $1.6 billion. Though nobody actually had much against the budget, J.P. Leader Suleyman Demirel, 41, a wealthy, U.S.-trained civil engineer, mounted an assault on it to discredit Inönü. The Premier was vulnerable: backed solidly by only 192 members of the 450-seat National Assembly, Inönü ruled with the aid of a mere handful of independents. When the vote came last week, the Justice Party, which has 171 Assembly seats, had rounded up enough support from...
...choose victims in the first place. Since "un-American" has no legal meaning, the Committee enjoys the distressing power to define and redefine the word as it pleases. If Weltner's proposal effectively dramatizes this fact, it will have served what we hope is its true purpose: to discredit and lampoon the Committee in the eyes of Congress and the people...
Tito evidently felt confident enough to renew his attacks on the Chinese Reds, even if Moscow has tempered its own; the Chinese, he sneered, had over-estimated "their role in the world," and he condemned their "persistent efforts to discredit the policy of peaceful and active coexistent." Tito also sounded relatively secure in dealing with domestic matters, including the age-old feuds among Yugoslavia's many nationalities, which Tito has greatly subdued but not eradicated. Though claiming that "we are among the first countries in the world in rate of economic growth," Tito admitted to inadequate labor productivity...
...early Christians abhorred cremation as a pagan practice, and ever since, the Roman Catholic Church has held that the body is not for burning. When cremation was legalized in northern Europe during the 19th century, the Catholic Church suspected an atheistic plot to discredit belief in resurrection. In 1886 the Roman Inquisition declared that Catholics who cooperated in cremation were guilty of sin, and the prohibitions were repeated in the 1917 revision of canon...